Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Feds: "Because We Can Spy on Everyone, We've Thwarted a Bazillion Attacks!"

The number keeps changing, now it's 50. Mostly with nebulous or no details.

Yeah, right. More mush from professional liars and prevaricators.

Bruce Schneier is rethinking his earlier opinion that the NSA isn't storing voice data. The NSA's definition of "listening in" apparently is opening up the files that they have already collected and then listening.

So it's as though the NSA has taped your calls and, as long as they don't actually listen to the tapes, that's supposedly OK? Wiretapping isn't the act of tapping the wire, it's listening to the call itself?

Anyone else find that to be a pretty perverse definition?

2 comments:

Old NFO said...

Good points all, and trust is continuing to lessen... sigh

The Management said...

In Maryland, it's illegal to record a telephone conversation without explicitly informing the parties on the call that the conversation is being recorded. NSA is based out of Fort Meade, MD.

Of course, the Sun will go nova before any Maryland law enforcement types try to prosecute any No Such Agency boys for recording EVERYONE'S phone conversations all the time. That would be a bit like an alley cat picking a fight with a leopard.